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- From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:45:03
- Organization: IDIAP (Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle
- Perceptive)
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- References: <1992Nov13.022712.16069@twg.com> <1992Nov13.190824.7843@cpu.com>
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- In-reply-to: gwlester@cpu.com's message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:08:24 GMT
-
- Someone writes:
-
- >[replacing items in /bin and /usr/bin with interpreted scripts]
- >
- >By properly partitioning functionality into dynamically loadable
- >libraries most of the necessary functionality ought to be doable
- >in C functions. In which case the scripting language would only
- >be there to glue C functions together into an application usable
- >by a user. This should, then, make the `overhead' from
- >interpreted scripts insignificant.
-
- Maybe it would make it insignificant for copying a TeX file or listing
- your home directory. However, there are many users (including myself)
- of UNIX that routinely work with files that are more than 100M big,
- that need to work on lines that have around 1000 blank-separated
- fields, and that use directories with hundreds or thousands of
- entries.
-
- Currently, tools like "cut", "paste", "join", "sort", and "ls" are not
- significantly slower than what I could write myself in C, and I hope
- that it will stay this way...
-
- Thomas.
-